THE ANIMAL FARM
By George Orwell
Josh Ye
Period 5

Why did Orwell choose a farm as the novel Animal Farm’s setting?

He was distressed at the way many people in England misunderstood the severity and cruelty of what was then occurring in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Orwell did not think that Stalin's brutal totalitarian regime should be confused with true socialism
He recounts: the actual details of the story did not come to me for some time until one day (I was then living in a small village) I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge cart-horse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength, we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat.

EASY TO UNDERSTANT

• A farm is simpler to describe than an entire nation state and so made Orwell's story easier to tell. A. Animals provide enough distance from the human experience that we can understand Orwell's main .points more easily.
• Numerous events in the novel are based on ones that occurred during Stalin's rule. In the article, The Battle of the Windmill reflects the U.S.S.R.'s involvement in World War II — specifically the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, when Stalin's forces defeated Hitler's (as Napoleon's defeat Frederick).

Distortion of ideal
It show how easily the ideals of a revolution can be corrupted by the misuse of language and by violence. The farm, with its various types of animals, gave him a simple stage on which to place his ideas about the mechanisms through which one group or individual twists ideals and turns them to evil.

Work Cited

• Why did Orwell choose a farm as the novel Animal Farm's setting?" eNotes Editorial, 1 Aug. 2019, https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/why-did-orwell-choose-a-farm-as-the-no.... Accessed 30 Aug. 2019.